Yesterday and Today at Oregon State Hospital

467 Poisoned at Oregon State Hospital
November 18, 1942
One of the most tragic incidents in Salem’s history was the poisoning of nearly 500 patients and staff at the Oregon State Hospital, on the evening of November 18, 1942. Many who ate the scrambled eggs served for dinner that evening would later claim that they had tasted [...]

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Mad Liberation by Moonlight

Re: Looney Radio 5/15/09
Mental Health consumer-talk-radio
Tonight, Friday night, 1 a.m. to 2 a.m.-
May 15th, 2009
KBOO 90.7 FM or streamed on the web: kboo.fm
Call in at 503-231-8187 to be on the radio (or show up at the studio).
Please set your alarm if you aren’t up at that time- we need your voice.
There are people listening
(all over [...]

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Stories From Mental Hell Treatment

These are stories of people subjected to torture and humiliation in the name of “treatment” for mental health issues. They are found (with many others) on the website: http://psychrights.org/index.htm
CHOMP Hell
On October 15, 2007, I was kidnapped, put in solitary confinement, and I was physically abused for 3 days.
My husband had called the suicide prevention hotline and [...]

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MLBM Announcement

Re: Looney Radio 4/17/09
Mental Health consumer-talk-radio
This Friday night, 1 a.m. to 2 a.m.-
April 17th, 2009
KBOO 90.7 FM or streamed on the web: kboo.fm
Call in at 503-231-8187 to be on the radio (or show up at the studio).
Please set your alarm if you aren’t up at that time- we need your voice.
There are people listening
(all over [...]

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Mostly the teachings of a Mad Man

Moon not exactly full
Last nights show was great, though a week late. I’ll get the MP3 up as soon as possible for the archives. Only 3 callers who hung on (several hang-ups when lines were busy). Enough on that topic.

My Friend, Senor Ref. C. on Ward 34D
Yesterday I saw a man at the “hospital” where [...]

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Study 15

From the Washington Post:
A Silenced Drug Study Creates An Uproar
By Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 18, 2009; A01
 
The study would come to be called “cursed,” but it started out just as Study
15.
It was a long-term trial of the antipsychotic drug Seroquel. The common wisdom
in psychiatric circles was that newer drugs were far better than [...]

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Grist

for the mill. Obtained from various web locations.

Concerning Premature death associated with bipolar disorder
 
 

Evidence of premature death for people diagnosed with bipolar disorder comes from a study published in Psychiatric Services (abstract available). This study adds to previous warnings discussing risk factors contributing to chronic illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes. The authors reviewed [...]

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My son draws pitchers

Download this: andrew-pics-collection
Extras:

Above remixed by Goopymart-

On a completely different note:
16canadageese
americanwigeon
blackcrownnightheron
cinnamonteal
greategrets
greenheron
turkeyvulture
whitefacedibis

greatblueheron
For those who know where to look, there is a special prize.

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Mental Health Round-up

Unlike the Pendleton Roundup there will be no bull(s).
We’ve known this for a while- the evidence simply piles up:
Lilly, J&J Antipsychotics Don’t Top Old Drugs in Kids (Update1)
By Rob Waters and Tom Randall
Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) — Best-selling antipsychotic medicines by Eli Lilly & Co. and Johnson & Johnson caused more side effects and were [...]

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Sunday Soup

Try this Automatic Flatterer, feel better:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~geoffo/humour/flattery.html
Give a Listen:
Cat Power-
cat_power-maybe_not
Allen Ginsberg-
07-america
Lewis Black- TV Pilot-
06-tv-pilot
Take a look:

Think about these things (links):
free buddhist audio-
http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/
Tao-
http://divinetao.com/
Ron Unger’ssite-
http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/blog/
Tomorrows news today-
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html

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